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Silent Failures in Scientific Software: On the Founding of Examen Silentii

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Founding editorial of Examen Silentii (ExSil), an open journal of independent, reproducible examinations of scientific software and public research data. Using a silent error found in Project Chrono’s acceleration-level assembly as an example, it argues that verification work of this kind currently has no permanent, citable record, and describes how ExSil will publish it: tests against independent references, maintainer responses published alongside each article, and clean results accepted as well as failures.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23290572

Author: Noah Parsons

Language: English

Topic: Scientific Computing and Data Management

Subfield: Information Systems and Management

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7222884494

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